i am quite pleased, however, that i now read blogs of people, mostly women, who are making God-honoring choices in how they react to their circumstances. they are living out their faith where the rubber meets the road AND they are letting us (sometimes total strangers) be witnesses to their obedience and submission to the will of our Heavenly Father.
i am grateful for their example, i ache for them, but i also feel privelaged to be able to pray for them. i am not just a spectator, lurking to get a dose of what is going on in someone's life. i like this so much more. there is risk, because i am investing emotionally, but i would not go back to the trivial-fact-collecting lurking i was doing before.
daily, i receive elisabeth elliot's devotional. today's made me think of the blogs i read, of the women out there who are impacting MY life by sharing their's. thank you, ladies! i am quite sure i am not the only one who is grateful for your transparency and authenticity.
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Source: A Lamp For My Feet
Scripture Reference: Psalm 112:4
One Man's Godliness
Let us never imagine that to fear the Lord and find joy in his commandments make no real difference in the world. They matter. One man's godliness may well make the difference between another's shipwreck and his reaching the harbor, for a man who actually enjoys obeying God is "a beacon in darkness for honest men" (Ps 112:4 NEB).
Reading the biographies of men and women whose hearts were gladly given to God has lit the way for me. Seeing the obedience of just one simple Christian has more than once steered me clear of danger.
One of the old gospel songs my father taught us was P.P. Bliss':
Brightly beams our Father's mercy from His lighthouse evermore
But to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning, send a gleam across the wave--
Some poor struggling, fainting seaman, you may rescue, you may save.
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